WRITER

Ramón Chao

1935 - 2018

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Ramón Luís Chao Rego (21 July 1935 – 20 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. In 1960 he began his collaboration with the RTF's Iberian languages Service. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ramón Chao is the 3,617th most popular writer (down from 3,267th in 2019), the 1,155th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,077th in 2019) and the 129th most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ramón Chao ranks 3,617 out of 7,302. Before him are Hwang Sok-yong, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Mirko Kovač, Jacob of Serugh, and Nathan Birnbaum. After him are Rubem Fonseca, L. J. Smith, Edvard Radzinsky, Gary Snyder, Åsa Larsson, and Willem Frederik Hermans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ramón Chao ranks 236. Before him are Eulogio Martínez, Susan Brownmiller, Željko Matuš, Fernando del Paso, Giovanna Ralli, and Diahann Carroll. After him are Rusty Schweickart, Paul Goma, Bobby Vinton, Valerio Adami, Norma Bengell, and Barbara Harris. Among people deceased in 2018, Ramón Chao ranks 229. Before him are Stanislav Govorukhin, Lindsay Kemp, Walter Laqueur, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Tab Hunter, and Tatyana Kuznetsova. After him are William Goldman, Dobri Dobrev, Barbara Harris, Eunice Gayson, Cecil Taylor, and Jigjidiin Mönkhbat.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ramón Chao ranks 1,155 out of 3,355. Before him are Francisco J. Ayala (1934), Fernando Savater (1947), Concepción Arenal (1820), Eduardo Dato (1856), Ángel María Villar (1950), and Aquilino Bocos Merino (1938). After him are Emilio Castelar (1832), Mariano García Remón (1950), Marisol (1948), Fernando de Herrera (1534), Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), and Manolo el del bombo (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Ramón Chao ranks 129. Before him are Salvador Espriu (1913), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), Enrique Vila-Matas (1948), Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856), Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862), and Concepción Arenal (1820). After him are Fernando de Herrera (1534), Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Carmen Laforet (1921), Gonzalo de Berceo (1197), Jesús Moncada (1941), and Lope de Rueda (1500).

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